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Playing An Instrument Enhances Pitch Perception

May 10, 2016

Actions may speak more melodically than sounds. A new study shows that playing a melody on a musical instrument enhances how those melodies are perceived and remembered, above and beyond just listening to them. “We wanted to understand how the auditory system encodes and responds to musical events that the motor system has learned, says […]

By lmunoz Filed Under: featured Tagged With: language, music, pitch, sound

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